A product license file for Natural is required. In addition, product license files are required for Natural Batch for zIIP, Natural for CICS for zIIP, Natural for Com-plete for zIIP and Natural for IMS for zIIP, if installed.
For information on product licensing, see the Software AG Mainframe Product Licensing documentation.
This section describes the changes in the installation process of base Natural and the Natural add-on products released with this Natural version.
Note:
The sections indicated for more information are contained in
the Natural Installation
documentation, unless otherwise
noted.
For installation guidance and information on new or changed System Maintenance Aid (SMA) parameters and Natural features, you can view the product-specific Readme files by using the appropriate SMA function.
To view a product-specific Readme
From the product list on an SMA
Maintenance screen, execute the
RM (Show Readme File) command
for the required product(s).
The ICU data libraries provided as Natural load modules with ICS (International Components for Unicode for Software AG) have changed due to the new ICU version (see also ICU Version Upgrade):
| ICS 2.2.1 / ICS 2.2.2 Library Name | ICS 3.1.1 does not support Data Libraries |
|---|---|
ICSDT58E |
--- |
ICSDT58J |
--- |
ICSDT58X (not for z/VSE
and BS2000)
|
---
|
Note:ICSDT58X is not supplied for z/VSE, nor BS2000.
However, you can create a user-defined ICU data library (see
Customizing the
ICU Data Library) or use single
ICU data
items as described in the Unicode and Code Page
Support documentation.
For details on ICU data libraries, see the relevant section in the Unicode and Code Page Support documentation.
For the changes in installation steps, see the Installation Procedure for z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000 in Installing International Components for Unicode for Software AG in the Installation documentation.
This section provides the latest information for this Natural release regarding compatibility with earlier versions of Natural for Mainframes as well as with Natural on other platforms.
Note:
For information regarding Software AG product compatibility
with IBM platforms and any IBM requirements for Software AG products, please
review the Product Compatibility for IBM Platforms web
page at http://www.softwareag.com/.
Natural objects that were created with Natural Version 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2 or 8.2 for Mainframes can be executed with Natural Version 9.1 without any adjustments to the objects or any conversion or migration procedure being required. This also applies to objects that have been cataloged with the Natural Optimizer Compiler.
Important:
Objects cataloged with a Natural Version prior to 2.3
must be recataloged before execution with Version 9.1. This also applies to
data areas that are used by these objects.
Software AG strongly recommends that any existing objects be recataloged with Natural Version 9.1 to take advantage of improved runtime handling.
The following table lists Natural Version 9.1.2 Zaps and the special purposes they support:
| Zap | Special Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| NA17122 | Allow index range of 1:9999 for MU/PE fields of VSAM files. | Increase upper limit for MU and PE
fields.
When a MU or PE field is defined, the permitted index range is 1:191 for VSAM files. This Zap increases the upper limit to 9999. |
| NA93189 | Suppress NAT3145 error information | Suppress extra L2 calls to Adabas
after a NAT3145 error has occurred.
If this Zap is applied, the application programming interface USR8202N no longer provides extended information on the NAT3145 error message. |
| NA93228 | Migrate old maps | Provide option to migrate Natural Version 4 maps that contain erroneous numeric field definitions to Natural Version 8.2. |
| NA95038 | Resolve problems (RSP=46) during Natural mainframe calls to Adabas LUW | Resolve problems that can arise when
Natural calls Adabas on Linux, UNIX or Windows from a mainframe platform: an
unexpected RSP=46 can occur if a READ loop at the level 1
(*LEVEL=1) ends with an End-of-File (RSP=3) and is executed
multiple times. This occurs because Natural on the mainframe does not send a
final RC command to release the Adabas format buffer if the READ
receives RSP=3.
|
| NA96036 | Define Arabic comma as special character | The Arabic comma is not defined as a
special character in Natural.
If this Zap is applied, the Arabic comma is treated as a special character. |
If ICS Version 3.1.1 is used with a Natural Development Server on z/OS in batch mode the ICS load library must be added to the STEPLIB concatenation in the NDV startup job.
Additionally, if the Natural Development Server is configured to
impersonate the NDV clients (SECURITY_MODE=IMPERSONATE or SECURITY_MODE=LOCAL)
the ICS load library must be added to the Sdefined to the program
class "**" of RACF
ralt program ** addmem('ICS311 load library'//NOPADCHK) uacc(read)